week 7-2) Class Activities

CMC



Benefits of CMC

Cultural aspect

• Big Culture- BigC : History, Historical   Something we can learn in the texts book 
• Little Culture-Little C : Body Languages, Food, ets. Something we can't learn easily in the texts book
  
  

Pegagogical Features of CMC 

Tools for Speaking

1. Sound/Sound Pattern
•talking dictionary Howjsay http://www.howjsay.com/ Word pronunciation
•English Pronunciation (By New Okanagan college) http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/ consonant vowel syllable, minimal pairs, interactive exercise
•American English Pronunciation (By Manythings.org) http://www.manythings.org/pp/
•Tongue Twister 1 (alphabetically sorted) 2 (for Kids British council, videos) 3 (EFL Playhouse, alphabetically sorted)

2. Role Play/Drill/Sentence Level
•Voki http://www.voki.com
•Alicebot http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1
•Practice Speaking with Mike (Talkingbot) http://www.eslfast.com/robot/tutor_mike.htm
•Text-to-Speech from Oddcast http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php
•Go animate http://goanimate.com/

3. Discussion/conferencing
•Online talk group -http://www.voxopop.com/
•Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/
•Google Voice http://www.google.com/chat/voice/